What is Pain? Different Medical Conditions
Client Testimonials
"I suffer from severe scoliosis (abnormal curvature of the spine) with spondylosis in the neck for the past 15 years. The pain was agonising to even just walk some 250 metres. Now after strengthening my core, I can go for my daily 3-km walks relatively pain free"
Dr. Peter Chua, 63,
Retired Medical Practitioner
Manual Therapy
Manual techniques include manipulation and mobilisation. All physiotherapists are skilled in applying these techniques safely. For example, physiotherapists routinely assess the integrity of vertebral artery blood flow before considering an upper cervical high velocity thrust technique i.e. manipulation.
Spinal mobilisation has always had its efficacy described in terms of improving mobility in areas of the spine that are restricted (Korr 1977). Such restriction may be found in joints, connective tissues or muscles. By removing the restriction - by mobilisation - the source of pain is eliminated and the patient experiences symptomatic relief (Maitland).
Physiotherapists find spinal mobilisation very effective in a wide range of painful spinal conditions, particularly where restricted mobility is present.
Restoration of spinal mobility, both in physiological movement and in vertebral segmental mobility, often results in a reduction in the patient's pain and spasm. This outcome is equally effective in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.
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